Sustainable Poetry

The first book to treat the US's four foremost ecopoets as ecopoets.

~Choice

Scigaj uses his examination of contemporary ecological poetry to mount a direct assault on the way literary theory has been conducted over the past twenty years.

~Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

Will join John Elder's Imagining the Earth as the most important contribution to date to the study of contemporary ecopoetry.

~Lawrence Buell

A rich context for our understading the work and persons of A.R. Ammons, Wendell Berry, W.S. Merwin, and Gary Snyder, four outstanding American poets.

~Psychological Reports

Anyone who things that nature poetry is a leftover mode from a bygone era, or that all nature poets are alike, needs to read this book before we have no nature left.

~Virginia Quarterly Review

Urges readers to distinguish between two kinds of poetry in order to set the stage for an epic intellectual and aesthetic battle.

~Western American Literature